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The nature and immortality of the soul proved in answer to one who professed…
The nature and immortality of the soul proved in answer to one who professed perplexing doubtfulness / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for B. Simmons, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 4. But I'll tell you what the Soul of man is: It is a Vital, Intellectual, Volitive Spirit, animating a humane organized Body. When it is separated, it is not formally a Soul, but a Spirit still.
§. 4. But I'le tell you what the Soul of man is: It is a Vital, Intellectual, Volitive Spirit, animating a humane organized Body. When it is separated, it is not formally a Soul, but a Spirit still.
§. 5. Qu. But what is such a mental Spirit? It is a most pure Substance, whose form is a Power or Virtue of Vital Action, Intellection, and Volition (three in one).
§. 6. I. Are you not certain of all these Acts, viz. That you Act vitally, understand and will? If not, you are not sure that ⟨p. 28⟩you see, that you doubt, that you wrote to me, or that you are any thing.
II. If you act these, it is certain that you have the power of so acting. For nothing doth that which it cannot do.